G. Gunaseelan Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Honourable
G. Gunaseelan
Native Name Lang:ta
Honorific-Suffix:MPC
Office1:Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine and Probation and Childcare Services, Northern Province
Term Start1:23 August 2017
Predecessor1:P. Sathiyalingam
Office2:Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Mannar District
Term Start2:14 October 2013
Party:Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization
Otherparty:Tamil National Alliance
Profession:Physician
Blank1:Ethnicity
Data1:Sri Lankan Tamil

Gnanaseelan Gunaseelan is a Sri Lankan Tamil physician, politician and provincial minister.

Gunaseelan was Medical Officer of Health (MOH) for Manthai West and Madhu.[1]

Gunaseelan contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Mannar District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council.[2] [3] After the election he was appointed to assist the Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine on food supply.[4] He took his oath as provincial councillor in front of Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran at his residence in Colombo on 14 October 2013.[5]

Sarveswaran was sworn in as Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine and Probation and Childcare Services in front of Governor Reginald Cooray on 23 August 2017.[6] [7] [8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Contact Directory Northern Province. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 94. 18 September 2013. 3 November 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131017115532/http://www.hpsl.lk/Files/Contact%20Directory/LKE0779_North%20Contact%20Directory%202013.pdf. 17 October 2013. dead.
  2. PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications PROVINCIAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS ACT, No. 2 OF 1988 Northern Province Provincial Council. 25 September 2013. The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1829/33. Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  3. News: PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 – Results and preferential votes: Northern Province. The Daily Mirror. 26 September 2013. Colombo, Sri Lanka. https://web.archive.org/web/20131002221205/http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/infographics/36078-provincial-council-elections-2013--results-and-preferential-votes-northern-province.html. 2 October 2013.
  4. News: Division of Ministries of the Northern Provincial Council & Subjects for Councillors. TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
  5. News: Two more TNA Councilors took oaths in Colombo. Asian Tribune. 15 October 2013.
  6. PART IV (A) - PROVINCIAL COUNCILS Appointments & C., by the Governors NORTHERN PROVINCE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL Appointments made by the Governor of Northern Province. 24 August 2017. The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 2033/48. Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  7. News: New Northern Province Ministers appointed. 27 August 2017. Daily FT. 24 August 2017. Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  8. News: Dias. Keshala. Two Northern Provincial Councillors sworn in as NPC ministers. 27 August 2017. News First. 23 August 2017. Colombo, Sri Lanka.